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Post by Value Buy on Oct 23, 2018 12:59:37 GMT -5
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Post by Value Buy on Oct 23, 2018 13:31:34 GMT -5
from the article:
The exodus of migrants walking through Mexico is, no doubt, a real story.
It’s just not the same story that much of the American news media is incredulously — at times hysterically — telling. The “caravan crisis,” said an ABC News graphic, added with some classic false-equivalency in its chyron: “Both sides seizing on immigration as mid-term nears.”
An “army,” was how the Associated Press described the migrants in a much-criticized tweet that was later deleted. It’s all a wonderful pre-midterms gift to President Trump, who on Monday declared those moving northward through Mexico a national emergency for the United States.
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Post by billisonboard on Oct 23, 2018 15:15:23 GMT -5
Thank you for the excerpt from the opinion piece although it would be good for people to read the whole thing for themselves to get all it actually says.
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Post by zibazinski on Oct 24, 2018 3:53:03 GMT -5
As long as they don’t end up here I don’t care. If trump lets any of them cross the border to this country then I care.
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Post by Value Buy on Oct 24, 2018 6:07:17 GMT -5
Thank you for the excerpt from the opinion piece although it would be good for people to read the whole thing for themselves to get all it actually says. Strange you would call me out for this when it is our requirement when posting a link. As you well know, we are not to copy the entire article as Moonbeam and Proboards tell us this is not permitted. We are told to post a snippet from the article and let posters decide whether to click on the link and read it, but you also know this. I get what I perceive out of the article. You get what you perceive out of the article, and we go on from there.
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Post by tbop77 on Oct 24, 2018 6:32:08 GMT -5
From the link:
In fact, comments from a panel of independent voters provided a dose of humanity — in the unlikely setting of “Fox & Friends,” normally a Mobius strip of agreement with the president.
“There’s a humanitarian crisis taking place in Central America,” one panelist said. “And yet, this issue gets turned into a complete political football. There’s very little honest discussion about what’s actually happening, it gets turned into talking points.”
As Aidan McLaughlin wrote in Mediaite,the panel members rejected fearmongering in favor of what sounded strangely like that forgotten balm: good sense.
“Treating this as an ‘invasion’ is a bad idea, and it’s going to end horribly,” one panelist said. “People have to realize these are human beings coming here, and there needs to be a real solution offered in dealing with it.”
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Post by billisonboard on Oct 24, 2018 8:10:39 GMT -5
Thank you for the excerpt from the opinion piece although it would be good for people to read the whole thing for themselves to get all it actually says. Strange you would call me out for this ... Sorry you felt called out. I thought what you quoted was somewhat more helpful to understanding the point of the opinion piece than the thread title and the OP. I think reading the whole piece would be even better.
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Post by djAdvocate on Oct 24, 2018 19:16:45 GMT -5
i doubt it. but i don't think it is helping them, either. especially without Mueller turning out conviction after conviction after conviction......
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Post by Value Buy on Oct 24, 2018 21:33:00 GMT -5
i doubt it. but i don't think it is helping them, either. especially without Mueller turning out conviction after conviction after conviction...... Mueller is getting very long in the tooth these days. No one is even talking about him, not even the Democrats, who are also not talking about the mob coming north from Mexico. The dems know they screwed the pooch on both issues. It is amazing how the leftwing meia is now ignoring the caravan. Must........not.........mention.......them. We......are.....going.....to....elect.....Republicans!
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Post by djAdvocate on Oct 24, 2018 22:17:06 GMT -5
i doubt it. but i don't think it is helping them, either. especially without Mueller turning out conviction after conviction after conviction...... Mueller is getting very long in the tooth these days. No one is even talking about him that is because his cases are on hold until after the election. but i disagree that he is long in the tooth. i think his teeth are razor sharp, and are about to rip another half dozen people to shreds. if Trump allows that to happen. and if he doesn't, i think the second half of his term is in serious trouble. i think that Mueller will be done in about half the time that it took to do the Benghazi investigation(s). perhaps a little longer, but not a whole lot. i don't recall you ever calling the idiots that spent 3.5 years and found NOTHING (before quietly closing shop after the election) "long in the tooth", so, i suspect that you are just trying to goad me.
you succeeded. i think Mueller is an American Hero.
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Post by Shooby on Oct 25, 2018 5:42:32 GMT -5
Funny how Dems are taking the stand of SILENCE. Yeah, real leadership there!!
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Post by Tennesseer on Oct 25, 2018 12:00:10 GMT -5
Funny how Dems are taking the stand of SILENCE. Yeah, real leadership there!! Bless your heart. We are simply waiting for the report to come out.
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Post by djAdvocate on Oct 25, 2018 18:21:41 GMT -5
Funny how Dems are taking the stand of SILENCE. Yeah, real leadership there!! sorry, my bullshit translator is broken. wtf are you talking about?
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